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Inequality in EU crisis countries: How effective were automatic stabilisers?
Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Savage, Michael - 2018
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012789
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Europe through the crisis: Discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilisers
Paulus, Alari; Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2018
Tax-benefit policies affect household incomes through two main channels: discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilisers. Although a large body of literature has studied the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on incomes, little is known about the link between automatic stabilisers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012795
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Decomposition of changes in the EU income distribution in 2007-2011
Paulus, Alari; Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2017
We summarise and decompose changes in the household disposable income distribution in 2007-2011 across 27 EU countries to study the impact of the Great Recession on household incomes and the key factors contributing to it. Using microsimulation techniques and applying the EU tax-benefit model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012819
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Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tasseva, Iva - 2019
countries. We use the standard microsimulation-based decomposition method, separating further the effect of structural policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389707
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The changing education distribution and income inequality in Great Britain
Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2019
Over the past years, the number of university graduates increased at an unprecedented rate in Great Britain. We analyse how this higher education (HE) expansion affected inequality in household net incomes in the 2000s. We show that, all else being equal, education composition changes led to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389718
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Homeownership investment and tax neutrality: A joint assessment of income and property taxes in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde; Zantomio, Francesca - 2019
Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households' portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...
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Taxing home ownership: Distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - 2012
Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288293
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Changes in income distribution and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession: An international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331180
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Demographic change and the European income distribution
Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2018
typically complex nature. We use a decomposition technique to isolate the effect of projected demographic change on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012788
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Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: A decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007
composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
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